Do you live in/near Atlanta? Are you working at the intersection of AI and the humanities? Are you working at the intersection of AI and Atlanta? Do you want to be doing any of the above?

If so, apply for an #AIAINetwork seed grant! aiai.network/grants/

I’m quite used to the cruelty students can face when they apply for a US visa but this one broke me. We offered admission to a stellar, talented & hardworking student. After months of work and hundreds of dollars, an embassy officer saw him for 5 mins & said no. why? …

As soon as the #ACL2023 main conference concluded, I got my Canadian Visa! Now I'm way ahead of everyone else when the next time the conference is held in Canada #ACL2023 NLP

'Grounding Characters and Places in Narrative Text' (led by Sandeep Soni), which infers the relationship between a character and location in fiction. Sandeep can't make it so I'll be presenting (9:30am 7/11). Come find collabs Matthew Wilkens (@[email protected]) Elizabeth Evans too! arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17561

My department asked me to give a brief talk about #GPT to them to help folks learn more about what's going on. Here are my #tips in distilled form.

I really enjoyed working on this piece. It makes the case of more transparency with LLMs and being aware of issues such as memorization and data contamination when using LLMs for research.

Interested in the use of word and token embeddings to discover change and variation in meaning? Tune in to the ICWSM tutorial I'll present at 11AM ET today. #ICWSM

Spent a wonderful summer as an intern working with Kristina a few years ago. I highly recommend this.

Announcing the NLP+CSS 201 tutorial series (w/ Katie Keith)! Check out the website here: nlp-css-201-tutorials.github.io/nlp-css-201-tu…

The first tutorial will tackle 'Comparing Word Embedding Models' with Connor Gilroy | @[email protected] and Sandeep Soni as leaders. You can RSVP here: forms.gle/ivUaKuG87vGQYJ…

New in Public Books: “How Words Lead to Justice” (or not, as the case may be). In which Sandeep Soni and I (and Jacob Eisenstein in absentia) use diachronic word embeddings to see who was responsible for the changing language of the abolitionist movement. publicbooks.org/how-words-lead…

How do we track the progress of words from the margins to the mainstream? And what can this tell us about the evolution of racial justice?

Lauren Klein | @laurenfklein.bsky.social and Sandeep Soni on the science of words and the history of abolition:
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Hello social science people! I am looking for feedback on a tutorial series about #NLProc methods that I want to organize in the fall. Please fill out this survey if you are interested, and share with others: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

TL;DR interactive CSS tutorials.

I've been seeing the following a lot: 'I'm OK with science but until I see digital research that teaches me SOMETHING NEW abt the novel, poetics etc I won't be interested in DH.' Thing is there's a lot of work already out there that does that. Here's a thread w/ a lot of examples